AN AMERICAN IN PARIS with Live Music by The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra May 12th and 13th

“Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here but it sounds better in French.”

Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture, and celebrated as one of the most popular musicals of all time, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS comes to life on the big screen May 12th and 13th at Powell Hall in St. Louis (718 N Grand Blvd). Join the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as they perform the film’s score live!

Performances are Saturday, May 12th, 2018 7:00PM and Sunday May 13th at 3:00PM. Tickets can be purchased HERE

One of the American Film Institute’s Top 10 Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, stars Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly and features the timeless original music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin. Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with the musical film on the big screen while the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs the score live!

The songs are all Gershwin Brothers standards; Kelly’s choreography is breathtaking; the original screenplay by playwright Alan Jay Lerner is alternately witty and touching; and Vincente Minnelli’s direction feels assured. The 17-minute Dufy-inspired ballet (art directors Cedric Gibbons and Preston Ames, along with costume designer Irene Sharaff, also contributed brilliantly to this sequence) is the showstopper here but an underrated standout is “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise,” performed with marvelous elan by Guetary.